House Tour: Inside Tale's Stone House, Circa 1790

[talesofthesevenseas]

The kitchen going in. The kitchen is in the part of the house that is the little outbuilding mentioned in the first few photos. Then a progress photo in the living room and the porch going on. The next set will be things starting to come together.

[talesofthesevenseas]

Progress...

[talesofthesevenseas]

and final pics of the cottage

[ghopper1924]

Beautiful. What a perfect job you've done!

[KC]

I love love love it!!!!

[talesofthesevenseas]

Thanks all, we did a lot of things to enable her physically. The towel rack in the bathroom is actually a second grab bar, there are smooth, level transitions from room to room and all the electrical outlets are a little higher up than average. I loved those old, hand-hewn beams in the living room and those were left untouched. She loves her cottage and splits time between the cottage and her senior apartment in town.

[ghopper1924]

Nice! It sounds like she lives a wonderful life, thanks in no small part to you!

[mart]

Its a lovely cottage !! 

[talesofthesevenseas]

Back inside the stone house... Here's the kitchen.

I love that the previous owners stayed true to the old time look of the house and didn't put a modern kitchen in. However, I am in a quandary over it. Behind the wall on the left side of the first photo is an old cooking hearth. I would love to uncover it, but to do so is to open a perpetual can of worms and would mean a major remodel to a kitchen that I already love.

To get a sense of if it would be worth it, I got a cheap endoscope and looked behind the wall. I located one small opening in the stones that appears to be a small warming oven... then I dropped the endoscope and it broke. However I learned that it is not one large hearth as we thought. It is also not where we expected it to be at ground level, but is apparently raised or filled in. We're just not sure at this point. We drilled a couple of small holes and came right against stone where we expected to find an open void. I need to buy another scope.

[ghopper1924]

More gorgeous work. Interesting about your hearth. Just one more reason why old houses are the best!

[Pelady]

Once you start changing things you can run into all kinds of problems with new building codes. If you love what you have be careful.

[talesofthesevenseas]

There are a few things I'd like to do- I'd like to expose the original floorboards and remove the modern floor tile. I would also like to install an antique sink and facet set that I've been carrying around for years!